Christina Applegate Had A Double Mastectomy
On Monday we reported that Christina Applegate had revealed that she is “100% cancer free” following her treatment for breast cancer. Now the actress has revealed that her successful treatment was the result of a double mastectomy. From her appearance on Good Morning America:
“I just wanted to kind of get rid of this whole thing for me,” she said of the prophylactic double mastectomy. “This was the choice that I made and it was a tough one.
“My decision, after looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy,” she explained.
“I didn’t want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything.”
Applegate will undergo reconstructive surgery over the next several months, and in this she finds a bright side:
“I’m going to have cute boobs ’til I’m 90, so there’s that,” she joked. “I’ll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I’ll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.”
The star of Samantha Who? cited her mother, a repeat cancer survivor, as her inspiration and a source of strength.
“I’ve watched her have a mastectomy, and then I’ve watched her go through two years of chemotherapy and eight surgeries and a hysterectomy…I’ve watched this woman survive both those things. So, for me, there was always that sense that I was going to be OK, no matter what.”
I’m sure, though, that watching her mom go through all that was a factor in her decision to undergo such a radical and thorough treatment for her own cancer. Here’s wishing Christina the best as she continues to recover - and hoping that she picks a nice pair when she goes in for the reconstruction!
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I love what a trooper Christina is even in this dark period of her life. I really do respect her attitude and how she is taking her stand against cancer. If anyone is a fan of Samantha Who? I came across this Starter Kit Video that is very entertaining. It is at:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/samanthawho/index?pn=index
If you watch it, you won’t forget it.
Why does she speak of a prophylactic mastectomy? As far as I know it is only prophylactic if you do it before cancer is diagnosed.